Word: embargoing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...This Government does not intend to embargo Russian goods just because we do not happen to like the character of the Russian Government...
Loudest Voice. Matthew Woll, third vice president of the American Federation of Labor, raised the loudest voice in favor of an embargo against all Soviet goods. Claiming to represent 500,000 workmen as the head of the Wage Earners Protective Association, he talked of invoking a similar embargo against convict-made goods from Fascist Italy. His language became so intemperate that William Green, president of the A. F. of L., was forced to disavow him as a spokesman for that organization...
Taking his cue from the White House, Assistant Secretary Lowman reopened his pulpwood embargo which had already held up six vessels in U. S. ports, had blocked 68 others in transit. Big U.S. Business, the Soviet's good friend, hustled to Washington. Representatives of Amtorg, International Paper and the foreign shipping companies fairly swept Mr. Lowman off his feet with categorical denials that any of Russia's 1929 pulpwood had been produced by convict labor. Soviet officials in charge of the Russian Export Trust cabled that the pulpwood workers were free "to leave any time at their own will," that...
...Embargo Off. Impressed, Assistant Secretary Lowman decided that the Treasury had "gone off half-cocked." He revoked his pulpwood embargo. He admitted that the evidence "was conflicting and inconclusive . . . and not sufficient to establish the fact that the pulpwood was produced by convict labor...
Muddled Geography. What the original embargo evidence was remained an official secret. But it was understood that Mr. Lowman had acted on: 1) a general Soviet order for use of convicts in the lumber industry; 2) affidavits of escaped prisoners from a lumber camp. It developed that the "escaped prisoners" were not from the pulpwood forests along the Dvina River, but from the island of Silesky, 1,200 mi. away, where no export timber is cut. Mr. Lowman, it appeared, had never studied Russia's geography very closely...